Former NASA rocket scientist predicts faster than light travel between the years 2300 and 3000

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Former NASA rocket scientist predicts faster than light travel between the years 2300 and 3000

Faster than light travel is a necessity for most science fiction, but with today’s technology, FTL travel sometimes looks just like a pie in the sky fantasy. One former NASA rocket scientist predicts however, that humans will eventually be able to move across the universe faster than light, but it won’t happen until at least 2300, possibly as late as 3000.

Former NASA physicist and founder of the Tau Zero Foundation Marc Millis talked about the prospects of interstellar and faster-than-light (FTL) travel in a recent interview with Forbes contributor Bruce Dorminey. Millis retired from NASA early to pursue interstellar travel research, and says that if made a priority, in half a century we could send an unmanned probe to Alpha Centauri at one tenth the speed of light. However, fuel and funding are a huge limitation, and Millis and many others still struggle with the question of how to run a space program on “less money than is [annually] spent on potato chips.”

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